Garrett Hartley Is Nostradamus Now – 25 Points

The young kicker for the New Orleans Saints, Garrett Hartley, kicked a huge game-winning field goal in overtime yesterday to help the Saints send the Vikings packing (great game!).

After the game, Hartley claimed he’d had a vision the night before of himself kicking the game winner… from the right hash at the 42-yard line.  So vivid was his vision of the kick, that he couldn’t go back to sleep.

Unable to sleep, Hartley did what any of us would… he called his dad, at 2 in the morning, to tell him about it.

Then, he went out and kicked a game-winner from the right hash at the 40-yard line (hey, even Nostradamus was slightly off on some of his predictions… “hister,” anyone?).

Anyway, that’s a great story and all.  But it’s a little convenient.  If you really want people to value your skills of NFL prediction, you actually need to call your shot prior to doing something amazing.  Because if you wait until afterwards… well, people become skeptical.  I’m not saying Garrett Hartley didn’t have a premonition about kicking the game winning field goal… I’m just saying he didn’t tell us about it until after he’d made it… at which point, there’s not much reason to tell us about your vision.  It’s like David Copperfield debuting a new trick… without saying what’s going to happen… then, when something happens… Copperfield can just say… “Yes… of course I intended to make that monument disappear… that’s the ticket!”

Anyway, claiming to have a vision about kicking the game-winner will now earn you 25 points… because it’s borderline crazy talk.

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